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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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LOCAL & GENERAL Cesnock Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

The police court was held at Cessnock to-day. The next sitting will bo held, on Tuesday, next, 11th inst…

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(Published by arrangement.) the Black Hand of Murder

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 3

William G. Shepherd, after, an exhaustive survey as special representative of "Collier's," of Prohibition and its results in Chicago, has this to say:…

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Police Puzzled. Search for Motorist. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5

The Sydney police are still nonplussed as to the whereabouts of the motorist who is said to have been responsible for the death of John…

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Two Charges. Defendant Before the Court

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 2

At the Singleton Police Court yesterday, before Messrs A. Simmons (chairman) and J. H. Decent, Js.P., Arthur Jack Corkill, aged 34, was charged with…

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Girl's Death. the Broken Hill Mystery. Police Investigations. Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5

Detective-Sergeant Anderson, who arrived from Sydney, has already commenced his investigations regarding the murder of Joan Smith…

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Frenchman Charged Allowed Bail on Murder Charge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 6

Plerre Altrien Mousset, aged 52 years, described as a cook, appeared at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, to answer a charge of…

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Stole Two Cabbages. Sentenced to Three Months Gaol. Albury

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 3

At the local police court Robert Guldy was sentenced to three months gaol on a charge of having stolen two cabbages worth 1/ from a…

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Alleged Assault. New Year's Eve Incident. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

At Hunter's Hill Police Court, Arthur James Reynolds and Harry Homus were charged in company with having assaulted Ralph Unwin,…

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Kurri Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 4

Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., presided at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. Michael Stanley Moroney, on remand, was charged with having…

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Escapees From Bega Gaol

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 1

Forcing the iron bars of their cell sufficiently apart to enable them ta squeeze through, two young men, named Pilkington and Wallace, escaped…

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Bird Burglars. Stealing From Oter Nests

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 2

Records of birds stealing building materials from other birds pests are curiously rare. One might almost say that the only…

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Six Months' Gaol. Indecent Conduct Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 8

A sentence of six months' hard labour in Maitland Gaol was passed on Ernest Tuckey, aged 47, at West Maitland Police Court to-day, by Mr…

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Law Court Sparklets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 2

Woman at Marylebone: It is a fabrication of falsehoods. Stratford man: I am a n'awker, with a n'awker's license, with…

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Boy Shot. Frenchman Charged with Murder

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 6

George Dunn, 15 years of age, was shot just beneath the heart while in Little Burton Street, Darlinghurst, on Monday afternoon, and he died soon…

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Raymond Terrace Police Court Statistics

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 1

During the year 1926 the charge and summons cases at the Raymond Terrace Police Court numbered 170. Assaulting police 1. common assault2…

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Fatal Brawl. Committed on Murder Charge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 7

At Brisbane Court George Ward, 29, labourer, on remand, appeared charged with the wilful murder of William Kirby, otherwise known as…

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Joan Smith's Death. Police Investigations

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 8

A message from Broken Hill states that Detective-Sergt. Anderson, Who arrived from Sydney, has already commenced his investigations regarding…

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Coroner's Court Statistics, 1926

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 7

In the [?]m and distant past matters in the Cessnock district requiring the attention of a Coroner and Jury were dealt with by the…

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Alleged Murder. Girl Committed for Trial. Merriwa

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

Charged with murder, a 19-years-old girl, was committed from tho Coroner's Court at Merriwa yesterday, to Maitland Circuit Court…

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The Black Hand of Murder. (Published by arrangement)

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 3

William G. Shepherd, after an exhaustive survey as special representative of “Collier’s” of Prohibition and its results in Chicago has this to…

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